Gas range



J. c. OLSEN. JR

GAS RANGE Filed y 31. 1924 a c. oLsnn, an, or non'rn AURORA, rumors GASRANGE.

Application filed. ma 31, 1924. Serial No. 716,927.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMns C. OLSEN, Jr., a citizen of the United States,residing at North Aurora, in the county of Kane and State of Illinois,having invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gas Ranges, dohereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawing.

In gas ranges the cooking-top is usually provided with aplurality ofmain burners and (when desired) with a relatively small simmeringburner, which are supplied with gas from a gas-manifold arranged oneither the front or one end of the range. Where such ranges are of thecabinet type having an upper baking-oven nd a lower broiling ovenarranged at one side of the cooking- .top, the oven-burner is suppliedwith gas from such manifold by a suitable tube which in some stovesextends directly out of the oven to the manifold and in others extendsthrough the side wall of the oven into the burner-box of the open-topsection and terminates at the front thereof. In all these types ofstoves the gas-manifold is located on the outside of the stove, beingmounted beyond its area either at one end or at the front. This firstarrangement is objectionable in that the manifold and thevalve-connections at the end of the stove increase its length, andfurthermorerequire space at the end of the stove for access to theburners so that the stove cannot be set close to a side wall of theroom. The front manifold is objectionable as it necessarily increasesthe width of the stove, and when it extends in front of the oven-door asin some cabinetranges it is undesirable as when the door is opened thehot air from the oven enters the mixing-tube and interferes with propercombustion in the oven-burner, while the door when dropped interfereswith access to the valve of that burner. y

The object of my invention is to obviate these objections by providing agas manifold and its valve-connections in the cooking-top having itsfeed pipe leading into the burner-box from the rear and its valvehandlesat the front of the box. By such an organization 'I obtain, in additionto economy of manufacturing, the very important advantages in gas-rangesof this character of saving the amount of space otherwise taken upoutside or beyond the confines or area of the stove by the manifold andthe valve-connections, and of increasing the convenience and etficiencyof the stove by grouping the operating parts for the supply valves forthe various burners in compact relation at the center of the frontopening of the burner-box.

For the purpose of illustrating my invention I have shown in theaccompanying drawing one form or exemplification thereof which givessatisfactory and reliable results, although it is to be understood thatthe various instrumentalities of which my invention consists can bevariously arranged and organized and that my invention is not limitedthe precise arrangement and organization of these instrumentalities asherein shown and described. In the drawmg Fig. 1 is a perspective viewof a gasrange to which my improvements are applied with the top-grate orgrid omitted for convenience of illustration; Fig. 2 is a plan viewthereof partly in section, and Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line 33in Fig. 2.

As here shown, the reference numeral 1 designates the frame of thestove, 2 the opentop section, and 3 the oven section arranged at oneside of the open-top and comprislng an upper baking oven 4 and a lowerbroiling oven 5 having a suitable center-heat gas burner 6. The burner 6is supported on suitable brackets 7 on the oven walls and itsfuel-supply tube 8 extends through an opening in the side wall 9 of theoven-body with its air-mixer 10 suitably arranged in oneend of theburner-box 11 of the opentop section. Theburners 12 in the burnerbox areof any suitable form of the usual blue-flame type having theirfeed-tubes 13 provided with air-mixers, and are supported in the planeof the oven-burner6 by suitable removable supports 14 so that they canbe readily lifted from place for cleaning purposes. In practice thetop-burners 12' are preferably interchangeable, and each is providedwith a pilot-light tube 15; in the form shown four top-burners areemployed and are grouped around a central gas-manifold 16 which ismounted on the floor'of the burner-box and is supplied by a main feedgas-pipe 17 extending out through the rear ,of the burner-box andsuitably clamped to nozzles or jets lead into the air-mixers of theburners the jet for the oven-burner 6 bein suitably extended as shEwnand pref: erab y supported at its free end by a suitableclamp 21. Eachjet is governed by a valve or cock 22, and in the preferred embodimentof my invention each cock has an operating handle 23 extendin outthrough the open-front of the burnerox and provided with a suitable knobor burner-indicator 24; these handles are supported in a group at theirforward ends by a suitable bracket 25 attached to the underside of thetop-frame at the center of the burner-box. The pilot-light tubes 15 ofthe top-burners 12 communicate with the gas-chamber 19 of the manifold,and if desired each may be governed by an appropriate valve to increasethe pilot-flame momentarily when its associatedburner is to be lighted.

By this organization the gas-manifold and its adjunctive parts areorganized as a unitary construction which is located entirely within thearea of the stove, and-this unit organization also affords controlledfuel suppl to the .oven burner of ranges of the ca inet type, while thehandles for all the gas-valves are grouped at the front of theburner-box.

I claim: 1. In a gas range, an open-top section having a burner-box, agas-manifoldlocated in the burner-box and provided with a plurality ofjets, a cock on each jet and having an operating handle at the front ofthe burner-box, and gas-burners in the box having their supply tubes inalinement with the jets.

2. In a gas range, an open-top section having a burner-box, anoven-section at the'side of said open-top section, a gas-manifoldlocated in the burner-box, valves on the manifold having discharge jets,a plurality of burners in the box each having a supply tube in alinementith a jet, a gas-burner in the oven-section having a supply tubeextending through the side wallof the oven in line with a jet, and valvehandlesl'extending to the front of the burner-box, I

3. In a gas range, an open-top section having a burner-box, anoven-section at the side of said open-top section, a circular gasmanifold located in the burner-box, valves onthe manifold having radialdischarge jets, a plurality of burners grouped in the box around themanifold and each having a supply tube in alinement with a jet, agas-burner in the oven-section'having a supply tube extending throughthe side wall of the oven in line with a jet, and valve handles groupedat the front of the burner-box.

In witness whereof I have hereunto afiixed my, si ature.

gn JS .6. OLSEN, JR.

